Lung Cancer Symptoms: How to Find Out Whether You’re Afflicted

 

Lung cancer symptoms are wide-ranging depending upon where and how extensive the tumor is. In up to twenty-five percent of people who get cancer (lung), the disease is first discovered on a routine chest X-ray or CT scan as a lone mass sometimes called a coin lesion. In the other seventy-five percent of cases, it’s fairly easy for you to pick up the symptoms of lung cancer, once you follow the two strategies below.

 

 

Lung cancer symptoms such as cough, shortness of breath, wheezing, chest pain and coughing up blood may develop with the growth of the cancer and the invasion of lung tissues.

 

If the cancer has attacked nerves, it may cause shoulder pain that travels down the outside of the arm. It can also cause paralysis of the vocal cords, leading to hoarseness. Invasion of the esophagus may cause the patient to have trouble swallowing. Bronchitis, pneumonia, and other repeated respiratory infections are other signs that the afflicted person should start cancer treatment.

 

 

Swelling in the neck and face, increasing fatigue and weakness, and clubbing of the fingers and toes, with nails appearing to bulge out more than normal are some of the other lung cancer symptoms.

 

If the cancer spreads to the spine or bones, the patient will experience bone pain, weakness or numbness in the arms and legs, and back pain. Symptoms that lung disease has spread to the brain include seizures, headaches, and changes in alertness, vision changes, and nausea or vomiting. If the patient experiences yellowing of the skin or eyes, lumps and bumps under the skin, or enlarged lymph nodes, decreased appetite or weight loss, lung cancer could be the cause.

 

Other effects include new bone formation along the lower legs or arms, anemia, muscle weakness, skin rashes and degeneration of the brain.